Merge tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs

Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi:
 "This contains two new features:

   - Stack file operations: this allows removal of several hacks from
     the VFS, proper interaction of read-only open files with copy-up,
     possibility to implement fs modifying ioctls properly, and others.

   - Metadata only copy-up: when file is on lower layer and only
     metadata is modified (except size) then only copy up the metadata
     and continue to use the data from the lower file"

* tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (66 commits)
  ovl: Enable metadata only feature
  ovl: Do not do metacopy only for ioctl modifying file attr
  ovl: Do not do metadata only copy-up for truncate operation
  ovl: add helper to force data copy-up
  ovl: Check redirect on index as well
  ovl: Set redirect on upper inode when it is linked
  ovl: Set redirect on metacopy files upon rename
  ovl: Do not set dentry type ORIGIN for broken hardlinks
  ovl: Add an inode flag OVL_CONST_INO
  ovl: Treat metacopy dentries as type OVL_PATH_MERGE
  ovl: Check redirects for metacopy files
  ovl: Move some dir related ovl_lookup_single() code in else block
  ovl: Do not expose metacopy only dentry from d_real()
  ovl: Open file with data except for the case of fsync
  ovl: Add helper ovl_inode_realdata()
  ovl: Store lower data inode in ovl_inode
  ovl: Fix ovl_getattr() to get number of blocks from lower
  ovl: Add helper ovl_dentry_lowerdata() to get lower data dentry
  ovl: Copy up meta inode data from lowest data inode
  ovl: Modify ovl_lookup() and friends to lookup metacopy dentry
  ...

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/Kconfig b/fs/overlayfs/Kconfig
index 9384164253ac..2ef91be2a04e 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/Kconfig
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ config OVERLAY_FS_NFS_EXPORT
 	bool "Overlayfs: turn on NFS export feature by default"
 	depends on OVERLAY_FS
 	depends on OVERLAY_FS_INDEX
+	depends on !OVERLAY_FS_METACOPY
 	help
 	  If this config option is enabled then overlay filesystems will use
 	  the index directory to decode overlay NFS file handles by default.
@@ -103,3 +104,21 @@ config OVERLAY_FS_XINO_AUTO
 	  For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
+
+config OVERLAY_FS_METACOPY
+	bool "Overlayfs: turn on metadata only copy up feature by default"
+	depends on OVERLAY_FS
+	select OVERLAY_FS_REDIRECT_DIR
+	help
+	  If this config option is enabled then overlay filesystems will
+	  copy up only metadata where appropriate and data copy up will
+	  happen when a file is opened for WRITE operation. It is still
+	  possible to turn off this feature globally with the "metacopy=off"
+	  module option or on a filesystem instance basis with the
+	  "metacopy=off" mount option.
+
+	  Note, that this feature is not backward compatible.  That is,
+	  mounting an overlay which has metacopy only inodes on a kernel
+	  that doesn't support this feature will have unexpected results.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.